Umamusume: Pretty Derby Skill Tier List

The skills worth your points — not the full catalog. Umamusume has hundreds of skills on global already, but most careers end with the same question: which golds and key whites actually earn their skill-point cost? This board curates the ~70 skills that global tier guides treat as meta-relevant and ranks them by point efficiency and Champions Meeting value. Uniques that transcend their owners (inheritable game-changers) are ranked alongside purchasable golds.

The S tier is dominated by positioning and acceleration: Groundwork and Angling and Scheming define front-runner play, On Your Left! and Neck and Neck are the late-race acceleration golds for their styles, and Turbo Sprint owns 1200m fields like July's Leo Cup. Professor of Curvature and Swinging Maestro are near-auto-includes on almost any build, Concentration fixes your gate, and the debuff economy runs on Dominator and Mystifying Murmur. New to global with the summer banners: 564 Escapades, Summer Gold Ship's condition-bypassing unique that is already warping Team Trials scoring.

At the other end, the C tier is a public-service announcement: Super Lucky Seven, Clairvoyance, and friends are the classic point traps that look clever and win nothing. Cheap whites like Slipstream, meanwhile, are S-tier precisely because they cost almost nothing.

Global scope applies here too — skills arrive with their characters and cards, and JP-only golds and the evolved-skill system are not on global yet. Provisional tiers follow Game8's Best Skills Tier List (updated July 7, 2026), with names and icons verified against GameTora's global skill database. If a skill wins you finals or wastes your points, vote it up or down.